In 1997, writer Patricia Stacey and her husband, Cliff, learned that their six-month-old son, Walker, might never walk or talk, or even hear or see. Unwilling to accept this grim prognosis, they embarked on a five-year odyssey that took them into alternative medicine and the newest brain research-and toward a new understanding of autism. Finally this search brought them to pioneering developmental psychiatrist Stanley Greenspan, who helped them save their son and bring him into full contact with the world. At once heart-wrenching and hopeful, Patricia Stacey's enthralling memoir traces the experience of a remarkable family who struggled courageously in order to give their son a rich and emotionally full life.

Part 1.

Sirens You'll Have to Wait Grasping

Part 2.

What's in a Face The World Is Too Much Reciprocity The Brain Doesn't Wait The Game The Body Is a Map

Part 3.

The Questions That Haunted Us New Clues A Walk Around the Driveway The Epidemic

Part 4.

Through a Door in the Wall A Challenge, a Game, a Vocation, a Sentence Begin with Desire Tyranny of Attention Partly Heard Song Words The Specter of Loss Ways to Make a Salad The Ladder To Paradise Pond Exotic Poisons, Unusual Connections Through Another Door in the Wall

Part 5.

Imagining the World A Close Call Companions A Searchlight The Senses Revisited

Part 6.

I Have a Prob'em Epiphany What Wrecks This World A Car Turning Off the Road Eyes of a Stranger The Fate of Babies and Pirates Epilogue About the Author

Boy Who Loved Windows : Opening the Heart and Mind of a Child Threatened with Autism - 03 edition

In 1997, writer Patricia Stacey and her husband, Cliff, learned that their six-month-old son, Walker, might never walk or talk, or even hear or see. Unwilling to accept this grim prognosis, they embarked on a five-year odyssey that took them into alternative medicine and the newest brain research-and toward a new understanding of autism. Finally this search brought them to pioneering developmental psychiatrist Stanley Greenspan, who helped them save their son and bring him into full contact with the world. At once heart-wrenching and hopeful, Patricia Stacey's enthralling memoir traces the experience of a remarkable family who struggled courageously in order to give their son a rich and emotionally full life.

Table of Contents

Part 1.

Sirens You'll Have to Wait Grasping

Part 2.

What's in a Face The World Is Too Much Reciprocity The Brain Doesn't Wait The Game The Body Is a Map

Part 3.

The Questions That Haunted Us New Clues A Walk Around the Driveway The Epidemic

Part 4.

Through a Door in the Wall A Challenge, a Game, a Vocation, a Sentence Begin with Desire Tyranny of Attention Partly Heard Song Words The Specter of Loss Ways to Make a Salad The Ladder To Paradise Pond Exotic Poisons, Unusual Connections Through Another Door in the Wall

Part 5.

Imagining the World A Close Call Companions A Searchlight The Senses Revisited

Part 6.

I Have a Prob'em Epiphany What Wrecks This World A Car Turning Off the Road Eyes of a Stranger The Fate of Babies and Pirates Epilogue About the Author